News Letter: Los Angeles County Public Library April 1955

NEWS l E T T E R
f lr lle
Librarian
LOS ANGELES COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY
322 S. BROADWAY P.O. Box 111 LOS ANOELES 53, CALIF'ORNIA
Vol. 8 No. 10 April 1955
BOOK The librarian's point of view on book censorship, as expressed by
CENSORSIUP ~tr. Henderson, made national news for a brief moment last April 19,
on newscaster Edward R. Murrow's weekly CBS television show See it Now.
The portion of the progfam that presented the pros and eons of censorship dealt
with a California situation. Mr. Henderson spoke as the Chairman of A.L.A.'s
Committee on Intellectual Freedom set up by ALA in 1940 to safeguard the rights of
library users in eonformdty with the Bill of Bights of the United States and the
Library Bill of Rights as adopted by the Council.
BRANCHES
MEETING,
MARCH
A report of the March Branches meeting, which failed to make the March
issue of the News Letter due to elements of time and space is timely
in this issue. The theme of that meeting, also, was a plea for freedom
of thought and free exchange of thought.
Dr. Abbot t Kaplan, Assistant Director, Extension Department, UCLA, guest speaker,
stressed the need for greater understanding on the part of Americans of other
national points of view. He pointed out that education does not consist of acquiring
facts only, but is also development of an understanding capable of interpreting facts
correctly.
Reviews of books on world affairs were presented by Carlotta Hoye, Huntington Park;
Corinne '~ieks, Compton; and Mrs. Dorothy Jamdeson, Torrance Regional Librarian. The
books they reviewed, in that order, were: Civilization and foreign policy, by Louis J.
Halle; Common sense and world affairs, by Dorothy Fosdick, and European union and
United States foreign policy, by F.s.c. Northrop.
BRANCHES
MEETING,
APRIL
The April session was devoted wholly to book$,SOme about gardening, many
about photography. A booklist prepared by Reference, covering twelve
titles of recent gardening books was distributed and each book was
described by Mrs. Sheckard.
She particularly pointed out that every branch has a copy of Sunset Western Garden
Book, which she pronounced THE definitive volume for gardens and gardeners of all
types, indoor and outdoor, beginner and expert. Its prominent display was urged
and librarians were advised to turn to it for answers to any questions their patrons
might propound about the plant kingdom.
Forty-nine books on photography were presented in a booklist prepared by Branches
under the appropriate beading Shoot if you must!
Some are books of general information, suitable for the beginner or the advanced
camera addict; some deal with color; the darkroom; filters; lenses and lighting;
special camer as and v1ith motion picture photography. All were reviewed briefly by
Margretta Marshall, Kevin O'Farrell and Nellie Frost.
C.L.A. 's
SOUTHERN
DISTRicr
MEET
Our Library's aim to encourage "reading for pleasure• among teen-agers
was presented at the Young People's Library Service ~orkshop at C.L.A.'s
Southern District Meeti~g by Mrs. Frances Greene. One of five
participants on the panel, she said "recreational" rather than "directed"
reading often produced surprising results. As an example she mentioned
a member of her recently f ormed Young Book Reviewers Club who had recommended for
teen-age reading certain books he termed "absorbing" which some high school librarians
had adjudged "too difficult" for young adults.
The County Library was represented by a number of staff members from Central and
branches including the complete staff of t he Antelope Va lley Regional Library, who
came in a group with Mrs. Anna Davis, Regional Librarian.
CONVENTION lr. Henderson made a flying trip to Chicago during the month to meet
WORKSHOP with other members of the Planning Committee for a Pre-Conference Book
Selection Workshop at Philadelphia July 2 ·and 3. The Workshop 1i ·. :.
sponsored jointly by the Public Libraries Division and the Intellectual Freedom
Commdttee. It will be limited to fifteen discussion groups. Out of their deliberations
will come an analysis of the elements and considerations that should receive attention
in preparing a book selection policy stat ement.
LIBRARY Mrs. Wright, Branches, and two of her staff, Virginia Osseo and largretta
TALKS Marshall gave talks this month to various groups. Mrs. Wright discussed
Adult services to library patrons with 85 members of Potrero Heights PTl,
South San Gabriel. Miss Ossen, Bellflower Regional Librarian, spoke to 150 members
of Alameda School PTA, Downey, on What's in a book? Miss Marshall, Supervisor,
Branches, reviewed recent books for 50 members of an Inglewood YWCA group.
FROM THE CBII.DREN'S DIVISION
FINAL
REMINDER That date is almost here! May 4~ Little is left to tell in advance
about this year's Spring Book Breakfast. We are very proud of our
authors and we anticipate a delightful two and one half hours. Advance ticket sales
indicate the largest audience we have ever had. But since we have engaged the largest
banquet room in the St atler Hotel t here is plenty of room left for any extra guests
you care to bring. Your guests will be welcome.
SURVEY Tbree of our Children's librarians, Rosalee Wright, Mrs. Jesse Reinburg
and Mrs. Belen Keene, conducted surveys at Compton, Inglewood and
Temple City, respectively, to determine whether such old-time classics as Treasure
Island, Tom Sawrer, Andersen's Fairy Tales and The Arabian nights are still reading
favorites and, if so, among what age groups. The survey disclosed most of the copies
circulate every two weeks among the six-to-eight-year-olds. The survey was made in
response to a request from Readers' Digest.
INGLE\VOOO
ART SHOO
An art show featuring the work of puptls of the first through the sixth
grades of the Kelso School, I nglewood, is the current big attraction
at the Inglewood branch. Children's Librarian, Mrs. Reinburg, reports
its mast erpiece i s a mural done by the third graders showing them in line enroute
to tbe Library. Each child is represented by a self-executed portrait. Other
pieces in the show illustrate favorite books of each individual young artist. The
paintings were inspired by a program sponsored by the school principal, Mrs. Gertrude
Lawrence.
- 2-
SUM!1ER
READING
CLUB
School posters announcing the Summer Reading Club will soon be arrivin'
at the branches. They feature the membership cards which club members ·
will receive as soon as they .read and share three books. When you
deliver the posters to classrooms in the schools you serve, we suggest
you ask each principal to mention the Library's su1nmer activities in any publications
they send to their pupils' homes.
P.T.A.
LIBRARY
NIGH!'
Library Night was celebrated April 13 at the Rio Hondo School, El Monte,
by the. Rio Hondo PTA and representatives from El Monte and Live Oak
branches and from Cen.tral. An outstanding feature was a display of. all
the books mentioned in the Children's Division book list, The family
reads together. The exhibit was arranged and presented by one of the PTA parents,
Mr. Otis Yost, of A. C. Vroman Company. Mrs. Lillian B. Freer, Live Oak, spoke on
available library service. Mrs. Jean Allen, who works with children at El Monte
branch, and Miss Hansen, Central, explained children's services. Plans were launched
for a Book Fair next fall.
FROM THE CATALOG DIVISION
Children's Catalog, third edition, will probably be ready for distribution in May
or June. A thorough job of cleaning o~t discarded titles has been accomplished.
Progress on the Adult Catalog has been such that a few announcements about it are
also in order. All cards have been finished. Only proof reading and multilithing
remains to be done. We hope to be finished by September.
The Adult Catalog will have 75,000 .subject divisions, 110,000 titles, and 122,240
authors and added entries -- in approximately forty volumes.
Work is not exactly slowing down in any of our functions. During the last six months
we have cataloged 5.7,000 volumes41 Six years ago 49,000 books were cataloged during
the entire year.
DR. GOOOY
REJOICES
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • '
Our trainee, Dr. Benjamin Godoy, Director of the National Library of
Guatemala, who has completed two of three months with us in an intensive
study of American library methods and service, is proudly displaying a
communication he received from his government last April 18. It announced Guatemala's .
Presideni, Carlos Castillo Armas, bad bestowed the medal of the Order of El Quetzal,
the country's highest honorary gift, on Dr. Jonas Edward Salk for his discovery of
poJio vaccine. According to the communication, Guatemala was the first country to
make an official award to· the great scientist.
DUARTE
GATHERS
HISTORY
Mrs. Dorothy Sheffield, Duarte, reports civic interest in the new branch
building is still booming. She is capitalizing on it by inaugurating an
ambitious project concerning a collection on community history and has
started several scrap books. One is devoted to news clippings about the
town and its inhabitants, one to old letters, one to diaries, and one to other family
documents that scions of pioneer families have been invited to bring in and deposit
with the library. She hopes to have an historical treasure-trove before long.
WEST COVINA
CHILDREN
AND PETS
Audrey Spaulding, \~est Covina, reports it is story hour that is
booming at her branch. She credits it to the frequent volunteer
appearances of Mrs. Jacqueline Borschel, professional story teller,
who, before coming to West Covina, conducted a story hour on radio
stations in Iowa. Last April 7, thirty-two children, some of them on tricycles,
swooped down on the Library because they knew Mrs. Borschel would be there to tell
The little red hen and Dick Whittington and his eat.
BOOK REVIEWS
TO PLAYCRAFTER
SHO\Y
Mrs. Lauris Kassebaum, Enterprise, attended a training class for
Cub Scout leaders at Whaley Junior High School last March 22,
where she described and recommended fifty books that afford help
in Scout work. She wrote us, "I arranged them across the front of
the stage where they were easy to see and handle. I reviewed them, some as to
subject groups and others individually."
As a result of that t alk Mrs. Kassebaum has been asked to conduct the Playcrafter's
TV program on a Saturday in the near future. Date, time and Channel will be
announced later.
VISITORS Mrs. Grace St evenson, Associate Executive Secretary, ALA, made several
calls on friends at Central during the week she was in Los Angeles as
ALA representative at the national convention of the Division of Audio Visual
Instruction, N.E.A.
One of the principal speakers at the convention, she also pres~ded at the Cracker
Barrel session, an evening meeting given over to discussing many phases of related
library-school work. One of the participants on that progr am was Miss Hansen, Children's,
former president of Children's Library Association, ALA affiliate. She spoke as
representative of that group.
Ruth carter, libr arian from Port Moresby, New Guinea, who bas travelled the 11,000
miles from her island home just to "see American libraries about which we have heard
so much and on which we hope to model our routines", was our visitor last April 15.
Miss Carter had heard much of the Los Angeles County Library from a friend, Phyllis
Coner, librarian from Aust r alia, who was here three years ago.
Mrs. Iffat Almas, school principal at Nowshere Cantt, Pakistan, who i s making a six
month inspection tour of schools and children's libraries in this country, was our
guest for a half day.
UNESCO Dr. Julio Cesar Arroyaveq Dir~ctor of the UNESCO Library Pilot Project
LIBRARIAN in Colombia, South America, devoted an afternoon to us this month. He
was particularly interested in our fifteen institution branches. We
take our service to institutions for granted but Dr. Arroyave said in many countries,
his own included, libraries had been mainly for the educated upper classes. He was
enthusiastic about offering library service to jails and detention homes as he is
planning a similar program for his own country.
-4-
., ..
HANS CHRISTIAN One of Central's windows was given over during the month in
ANDERSEN commemoration of Bans Christian Andersen and observance of the 150th
anniversary of .his birth~ ,we were aided in accomplishing this by
the gift of a striking poster sent us by the Danish Information Service. We also
included collections of his tales, a book about his life and the article by
Rumer Godden in the Saturday Review of last December 25, titled The last of the
great fai'i"ytalers. This exhibit is scheduled for br anch circulation.
SERVICE Ten year service pins were presented on behalf of the Board of
PINS Supervisors to Mrs. Charlotte Brace, Librarian at San Dimas Branch,
Mrs. Bessie Mauth, Assistant Librarian, San Fernando Branch, and
Mrs. Fern A. Allee, As sistant Li.brarian, Lincoln Avenue Branch, during the month.
STAFF Mrs~ Teresita E. Vestal, former Typist Clerk, Order, promoted to
PERSONALS Library Assistant, Children's------ Martha J. Norment, Librarian I,
in charge of Monterey Park Branch, bas received a permanent appointment-~
Paul J. Monroe, Catalog, has also been promoted. He is now Librarian III--- Welcome
is extended to Ellen Mary Ramsay, Typi st Clerk, Reference. She transferred from the
Office of Superintendent of Schools----- Another welcome is extended to Mrs. Loretta
Baham, Typist Clerk, assigned to Reference---- Mrs. Deborah Wilds, Branches, is on
the convalescent list, following surgery at California Lutheran Hospital-----
Mrs. Leota Gacsi, Office, is also convalescing from a several week's illness. She
is expected back soon----- A former Office absentee, Mrs. Eunice Goodchild, has returned
after a ·month's absence for minor surgery----- Ben Kakimi, Property and Transportation,
h'as a new son, his second.
STAFFERS
EAT FOR
PROFIT
Staff As sociation members at Central ate with purpose and abandon one
day last week during the forenoon coff ee break. And what they ate!
Cakes with frosting an inch t hick, home-made candies, jelly tarts,
pies that were beautiful, t empting and calorie-laden, and of course,
salads, fruits and sandwiches. The occasion was a f und-raising project, the food
having been donate~ _ by Association members. President Rosalind Andersen reported
that $56.62 was realized·. A few di eting di e-hards r emained aloof. But they contributed,
so it looks as though Staff Room f urniture may yet be adorned with new slip covers.
DAVY
CROCKETr .
To all Branch Librarians, with regr ets , from the Children's Division.
If every book ~n our collection were a Davy Crockett story we could
nicely fill all your requests for that overwhel mingly popular ite~
Unfortunately we have no additional books on Davy avai lable at this time. Try
telling your young patrons to look for him in the en cyclopedia~
JDH:va
4/29/55

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NEWS l E T T E R
f lr lle
Librarian
LOS ANGELES COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY
322 S. BROADWAY P.O. Box 111 LOS ANOELES 53, CALIF'ORNIA
Vol. 8 No. 10 April 1955
BOOK The librarian's point of view on book censorship, as expressed by
CENSORSIUP ~tr. Henderson, made national news for a brief moment last April 19,
on newscaster Edward R. Murrow's weekly CBS television show See it Now.
The portion of the progfam that presented the pros and eons of censorship dealt
with a California situation. Mr. Henderson spoke as the Chairman of A.L.A.'s
Committee on Intellectual Freedom set up by ALA in 1940 to safeguard the rights of
library users in eonformdty with the Bill of Bights of the United States and the
Library Bill of Rights as adopted by the Council.
BRANCHES
MEETING,
MARCH
A report of the March Branches meeting, which failed to make the March
issue of the News Letter due to elements of time and space is timely
in this issue. The theme of that meeting, also, was a plea for freedom
of thought and free exchange of thought.
Dr. Abbot t Kaplan, Assistant Director, Extension Department, UCLA, guest speaker,
stressed the need for greater understanding on the part of Americans of other
national points of view. He pointed out that education does not consist of acquiring
facts only, but is also development of an understanding capable of interpreting facts
correctly.
Reviews of books on world affairs were presented by Carlotta Hoye, Huntington Park;
Corinne '~ieks, Compton; and Mrs. Dorothy Jamdeson, Torrance Regional Librarian. The
books they reviewed, in that order, were: Civilization and foreign policy, by Louis J.
Halle; Common sense and world affairs, by Dorothy Fosdick, and European union and
United States foreign policy, by F.s.c. Northrop.
BRANCHES
MEETING,
APRIL
The April session was devoted wholly to book$,SOme about gardening, many
about photography. A booklist prepared by Reference, covering twelve
titles of recent gardening books was distributed and each book was
described by Mrs. Sheckard.
She particularly pointed out that every branch has a copy of Sunset Western Garden
Book, which she pronounced THE definitive volume for gardens and gardeners of all
types, indoor and outdoor, beginner and expert. Its prominent display was urged
and librarians were advised to turn to it for answers to any questions their patrons
might propound about the plant kingdom.
Forty-nine books on photography were presented in a booklist prepared by Branches
under the appropriate beading Shoot if you must!
Some are books of general information, suitable for the beginner or the advanced
camera addict; some deal with color; the darkroom; filters; lenses and lighting;
special camer as and v1ith motion picture photography. All were reviewed briefly by
Margretta Marshall, Kevin O'Farrell and Nellie Frost.
C.L.A. 's
SOUTHERN
DISTRicr
MEET
Our Library's aim to encourage "reading for pleasure• among teen-agers
was presented at the Young People's Library Service ~orkshop at C.L.A.'s
Southern District Meeti~g by Mrs. Frances Greene. One of five
participants on the panel, she said "recreational" rather than "directed"
reading often produced surprising results. As an example she mentioned
a member of her recently f ormed Young Book Reviewers Club who had recommended for
teen-age reading certain books he termed "absorbing" which some high school librarians
had adjudged "too difficult" for young adults.
The County Library was represented by a number of staff members from Central and
branches including the complete staff of t he Antelope Va lley Regional Library, who
came in a group with Mrs. Anna Davis, Regional Librarian.
CONVENTION lr. Henderson made a flying trip to Chicago during the month to meet
WORKSHOP with other members of the Planning Committee for a Pre-Conference Book
Selection Workshop at Philadelphia July 2 ·and 3. The Workshop 1i ·. :.
sponsored jointly by the Public Libraries Division and the Intellectual Freedom
Commdttee. It will be limited to fifteen discussion groups. Out of their deliberations
will come an analysis of the elements and considerations that should receive attention
in preparing a book selection policy stat ement.
LIBRARY Mrs. Wright, Branches, and two of her staff, Virginia Osseo and largretta
TALKS Marshall gave talks this month to various groups. Mrs. Wright discussed
Adult services to library patrons with 85 members of Potrero Heights PTl,
South San Gabriel. Miss Ossen, Bellflower Regional Librarian, spoke to 150 members
of Alameda School PTA, Downey, on What's in a book? Miss Marshall, Supervisor,
Branches, reviewed recent books for 50 members of an Inglewood YWCA group.
FROM THE CBII.DREN'S DIVISION
FINAL
REMINDER That date is almost here! May 4~ Little is left to tell in advance
about this year's Spring Book Breakfast. We are very proud of our
authors and we anticipate a delightful two and one half hours. Advance ticket sales
indicate the largest audience we have ever had. But since we have engaged the largest
banquet room in the St atler Hotel t here is plenty of room left for any extra guests
you care to bring. Your guests will be welcome.
SURVEY Tbree of our Children's librarians, Rosalee Wright, Mrs. Jesse Reinburg
and Mrs. Belen Keene, conducted surveys at Compton, Inglewood and
Temple City, respectively, to determine whether such old-time classics as Treasure
Island, Tom Sawrer, Andersen's Fairy Tales and The Arabian nights are still reading
favorites and, if so, among what age groups. The survey disclosed most of the copies
circulate every two weeks among the six-to-eight-year-olds. The survey was made in
response to a request from Readers' Digest.
INGLE\VOOO
ART SHOO
An art show featuring the work of puptls of the first through the sixth
grades of the Kelso School, I nglewood, is the current big attraction
at the Inglewood branch. Children's Librarian, Mrs. Reinburg, reports
its mast erpiece i s a mural done by the third graders showing them in line enroute
to tbe Library. Each child is represented by a self-executed portrait. Other
pieces in the show illustrate favorite books of each individual young artist. The
paintings were inspired by a program sponsored by the school principal, Mrs. Gertrude
Lawrence.
- 2-
SUM!1ER
READING
CLUB
School posters announcing the Summer Reading Club will soon be arrivin'
at the branches. They feature the membership cards which club members ·
will receive as soon as they .read and share three books. When you
deliver the posters to classrooms in the schools you serve, we suggest
you ask each principal to mention the Library's su1nmer activities in any publications
they send to their pupils' homes.
P.T.A.
LIBRARY
NIGH!'
Library Night was celebrated April 13 at the Rio Hondo School, El Monte,
by the. Rio Hondo PTA and representatives from El Monte and Live Oak
branches and from Cen.tral. An outstanding feature was a display of. all
the books mentioned in the Children's Division book list, The family
reads together. The exhibit was arranged and presented by one of the PTA parents,
Mr. Otis Yost, of A. C. Vroman Company. Mrs. Lillian B. Freer, Live Oak, spoke on
available library service. Mrs. Jean Allen, who works with children at El Monte
branch, and Miss Hansen, Central, explained children's services. Plans were launched
for a Book Fair next fall.
FROM THE CATALOG DIVISION
Children's Catalog, third edition, will probably be ready for distribution in May
or June. A thorough job of cleaning o~t discarded titles has been accomplished.
Progress on the Adult Catalog has been such that a few announcements about it are
also in order. All cards have been finished. Only proof reading and multilithing
remains to be done. We hope to be finished by September.
The Adult Catalog will have 75,000 .subject divisions, 110,000 titles, and 122,240
authors and added entries -- in approximately forty volumes.
Work is not exactly slowing down in any of our functions. During the last six months
we have cataloged 5.7,000 volumes41 Six years ago 49,000 books were cataloged during
the entire year.
DR. GOOOY
REJOICES
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • '
Our trainee, Dr. Benjamin Godoy, Director of the National Library of
Guatemala, who has completed two of three months with us in an intensive
study of American library methods and service, is proudly displaying a
communication he received from his government last April 18. It announced Guatemala's .
Presideni, Carlos Castillo Armas, bad bestowed the medal of the Order of El Quetzal,
the country's highest honorary gift, on Dr. Jonas Edward Salk for his discovery of
poJio vaccine. According to the communication, Guatemala was the first country to
make an official award to· the great scientist.
DUARTE
GATHERS
HISTORY
Mrs. Dorothy Sheffield, Duarte, reports civic interest in the new branch
building is still booming. She is capitalizing on it by inaugurating an
ambitious project concerning a collection on community history and has
started several scrap books. One is devoted to news clippings about the
town and its inhabitants, one to old letters, one to diaries, and one to other family
documents that scions of pioneer families have been invited to bring in and deposit
with the library. She hopes to have an historical treasure-trove before long.
WEST COVINA
CHILDREN
AND PETS
Audrey Spaulding, \~est Covina, reports it is story hour that is
booming at her branch. She credits it to the frequent volunteer
appearances of Mrs. Jacqueline Borschel, professional story teller,
who, before coming to West Covina, conducted a story hour on radio
stations in Iowa. Last April 7, thirty-two children, some of them on tricycles,
swooped down on the Library because they knew Mrs. Borschel would be there to tell
The little red hen and Dick Whittington and his eat.
BOOK REVIEWS
TO PLAYCRAFTER
SHO\Y
Mrs. Lauris Kassebaum, Enterprise, attended a training class for
Cub Scout leaders at Whaley Junior High School last March 22,
where she described and recommended fifty books that afford help
in Scout work. She wrote us, "I arranged them across the front of
the stage where they were easy to see and handle. I reviewed them, some as to
subject groups and others individually."
As a result of that t alk Mrs. Kassebaum has been asked to conduct the Playcrafter's
TV program on a Saturday in the near future. Date, time and Channel will be
announced later.
VISITORS Mrs. Grace St evenson, Associate Executive Secretary, ALA, made several
calls on friends at Central during the week she was in Los Angeles as
ALA representative at the national convention of the Division of Audio Visual
Instruction, N.E.A.
One of the principal speakers at the convention, she also pres~ded at the Cracker
Barrel session, an evening meeting given over to discussing many phases of related
library-school work. One of the participants on that progr am was Miss Hansen, Children's,
former president of Children's Library Association, ALA affiliate. She spoke as
representative of that group.
Ruth carter, libr arian from Port Moresby, New Guinea, who bas travelled the 11,000
miles from her island home just to "see American libraries about which we have heard
so much and on which we hope to model our routines", was our visitor last April 15.
Miss Carter had heard much of the Los Angeles County Library from a friend, Phyllis
Coner, librarian from Aust r alia, who was here three years ago.
Mrs. Iffat Almas, school principal at Nowshere Cantt, Pakistan, who i s making a six
month inspection tour of schools and children's libraries in this country, was our
guest for a half day.
UNESCO Dr. Julio Cesar Arroyaveq Dir~ctor of the UNESCO Library Pilot Project
LIBRARIAN in Colombia, South America, devoted an afternoon to us this month. He
was particularly interested in our fifteen institution branches. We
take our service to institutions for granted but Dr. Arroyave said in many countries,
his own included, libraries had been mainly for the educated upper classes. He was
enthusiastic about offering library service to jails and detention homes as he is
planning a similar program for his own country.
-4-
., ..
HANS CHRISTIAN One of Central's windows was given over during the month in
ANDERSEN commemoration of Bans Christian Andersen and observance of the 150th
anniversary of .his birth~ ,we were aided in accomplishing this by
the gift of a striking poster sent us by the Danish Information Service. We also
included collections of his tales, a book about his life and the article by
Rumer Godden in the Saturday Review of last December 25, titled The last of the
great fai'i"ytalers. This exhibit is scheduled for br anch circulation.
SERVICE Ten year service pins were presented on behalf of the Board of
PINS Supervisors to Mrs. Charlotte Brace, Librarian at San Dimas Branch,
Mrs. Bessie Mauth, Assistant Librarian, San Fernando Branch, and
Mrs. Fern A. Allee, As sistant Li.brarian, Lincoln Avenue Branch, during the month.
STAFF Mrs~ Teresita E. Vestal, former Typist Clerk, Order, promoted to
PERSONALS Library Assistant, Children's------ Martha J. Norment, Librarian I,
in charge of Monterey Park Branch, bas received a permanent appointment-~
Paul J. Monroe, Catalog, has also been promoted. He is now Librarian III--- Welcome
is extended to Ellen Mary Ramsay, Typi st Clerk, Reference. She transferred from the
Office of Superintendent of Schools----- Another welcome is extended to Mrs. Loretta
Baham, Typist Clerk, assigned to Reference---- Mrs. Deborah Wilds, Branches, is on
the convalescent list, following surgery at California Lutheran Hospital-----
Mrs. Leota Gacsi, Office, is also convalescing from a several week's illness. She
is expected back soon----- A former Office absentee, Mrs. Eunice Goodchild, has returned
after a ·month's absence for minor surgery----- Ben Kakimi, Property and Transportation,
h'as a new son, his second.
STAFFERS
EAT FOR
PROFIT
Staff As sociation members at Central ate with purpose and abandon one
day last week during the forenoon coff ee break. And what they ate!
Cakes with frosting an inch t hick, home-made candies, jelly tarts,
pies that were beautiful, t empting and calorie-laden, and of course,
salads, fruits and sandwiches. The occasion was a f und-raising project, the food
having been donate~ _ by Association members. President Rosalind Andersen reported
that $56.62 was realized·. A few di eting di e-hards r emained aloof. But they contributed,
so it looks as though Staff Room f urniture may yet be adorned with new slip covers.
DAVY
CROCKETr .
To all Branch Librarians, with regr ets , from the Children's Division.
If every book ~n our collection were a Davy Crockett story we could
nicely fill all your requests for that overwhel mingly popular ite~
Unfortunately we have no additional books on Davy avai lable at this time. Try
telling your young patrons to look for him in the en cyclopedia~
JDH:va
4/29/55